365 day challenge: Day 343

Day 343: What is the most inspirational thing you’ve ever heard

I don't think there's a single most inspiring thing anywhere. It would always depend on my mood and experiences and what I needed or didn't need to hear. I rarely memorize quotes anyway - the same as with mottoes.

365 day challenge: Day 342

Day 342: Describe your relationship status

Uhh. Not taken, not looking; has no energy for new relationships that don't just start falling into place naturally. I assume I'll have my hands full once university starts up too.

365 day challenge: Day 341

Day 341: Your views on religion

To each their own. Don't shove it down anyone's throat. Not even if that is 'traditional' or 'the way it's always been' - remove it from education, except as a subject separate from everything else. It shouldn't influence politics. Or start wars. Or justify bigotry.

365 day challenge: Day 340

Day 340: Five negative traits you have

1. Perfectionism.
2. Needing answers.
3. Overreaching realism.
4. Capability for jealousy.
5. Inability to exhibit negative traits without hating myself intensely for it.

365 day challenge: Day 339

Day 339: Five positive traits you have

1. Patience.
2. Empathy.
3. Loyalty.
4. Self-control.
5. Willingness to learn.

365 day challenge: Day 338

Day 338: Your opinion on gay marriage

... I could have sworn this was a question already. Ah, it was. Basically: same-sex marriage should be legal and there is no logical reason to think otherwise.

365 day challenge: Day 337

Day 337: Describe the best day of your life

Similarly, I don't think I could pick a single best day. There have been good moments, good things, days that have been more good than bad - but not one overwhelmingly superior day. All huge changes have been gradual, too.

365 day challenge: Day 336

Day 336: Describe the worst day of your life

I don't think there is one. There's a lot of potential for truly shitty days in 7+ years of depression but... there doesn't seem to be one that overshadows all others.

365 day challenge: Day 335

Day 335: Which fictional character are you most like?

Ahahahahahahaha.

Too many fandoms to choose from. Too much empathy. Too many I've been told I resemble, too many I've identified with, too many that have had an influence.

You tell me.

365 day challenge: Day 334

Day 334: What you want from a relationship

Someone to be close to. Someone who cares. Someone I love. Common interests. Something that brings more joy than pain. Ideally, compatibility. A sort of safety - the kind I expect from any sort of friendship - that it won't suddenly all fly out of the window for no good reason.

365 day challenge: Day 333

Day 333: Where you want to be in ten years

I hope I'll have travelled a little more by then. Even 'just' to London again. I hope I have friends I can trust. I hope I've more or less completed my education. I hope I'm still learning.

365 day challenge: Day 332

Day 332: Your favourite movies

I still don't really do favourites. There are some I've liked more than some others that are still okay but I couldn't sort them if I tried. Some honorary mentions... hmm.

A Single Man, the Cornetto trilogy, the LotR films for art and devotion (but still definitely not the Hobbit), Bourne for slightly less questionable action movies, Ghibli (Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle especially).

365 day challenge: Day 331

Day 331: Your favourite music

Hm. I don't listen to music like some people. I'm not used to having it play in the background, whether I'm home or on the move - I do have music I love for various reasons but listening tends to be a fully engaging experience, you know? I don't need background noise and most of the time it would make me feel unfocused, stuffy - less able to think. I'd focus on it, partially or wholly, and it'd complicate whatever else I was doing.

I like lyrics. Good lyrics, lyrics I can identify with, lyrics that tell a story. I know very little about music which makes it a little hard to pick out other components I tend to like or not... unless, of course, I like a song for its context. Such as the Harry Potter soundtracks, or tracks from fanmixes, or friends' favourites.

Songs that end up on my lists of 'favourites' vary. The genre could be almost anything, honestly. I might give a different answer to questions like "do you have recommendations" on different days, to different people.

365 day challenge: Day 330

Day 330: Ten things that make you happy

1. Happy dogs.
2. Seeing people I love happy.
3. Hearing I'm important. Or loved.
4. Inside jokes.
5. Finding a new fandom (rather, a source material) with minimal causes for complaint.
6. Warm rain.
7. When pets come keep me company just because they wanted to.
8. Finding headcanons and/or meta I agree with.
9. Trust.
10. Cute animals.

365 day challenge: Day 329

Day 329: Ten Things that make you angry

1. Injustice.
2. Bigotry - racism, homophobia, sexism and the like.
3. Treating animals poorly.
4. Entitled assholes who think they're always right.
5. Mansplaining.
6. Bullies.
7. My brother.
8. Being held up when I'm in a hurry.
9. Wasted potential.
10. How people would rather stew in their own ignorance than learn.

365 day challenge: Day 328

Day 328: A book you recommend? Why?

At the moment? Inda.

It's fantasy - and very character-driven - the world has a huge history and a bigger future, various languages and peoples. There are queer characters, brown characters, neuroatypical characters... magic, kings, nobles, pirates, loyalty and some occasional philosophy.

The characters all have their own personalities, opinions and motivations. Most are loveable. Their relationships are realistic, often deep and moving. They're all allowed to have different views of people, relationships, love and sex and the narrative doesn't claim there is a 'right' way to see any of it.

365 day challenge: Day 327

Day 327: Have you read the twilight saga? Did you like it? Yes, no why?

I read bits and pieces. Frankly, I hate it. The author was convinced what she was doing was somehow revolutionary, for all the wrong reasons - fanfiction like that has existed for decades and I don't know how she could've missed that. Not to mention the relationships it depicts are grossly sexist, abusive and tropey.

There are people who have said all this more clearly than I would be able to here, go look for their answers if you're unfamiliar with how much Twilight sucks.

365 day challenge: Day 326

Day 326: Have you read HP? Did you like it? Yes no why?

I loved it. I was a child, the exact right age to start reading it when I did, and it was glorious. It was magic, it was a home, it was a universe to stay in and fall back to whenever needed. I still feel like I'm home sometimes, reading it. I was much less critical and it took a hold that will probably stay with me until I die. I'm glad for that.

365 day challenge: Day 325

Day 325: Favourite character of any book.

I'm rarely able to pick favourites, even when I fall intensely in love with characters or identify with them. Currently I'm very invested in Inda - in it, especially Evred, Hadand and Inda, then Sindan, Tau, Jeje and to a degree Tlennen, Shen and Barend.

Well. See?

365 day challenge: Day 324

Day 324: Which book you want-need to be made into a movie?

Maybe a TV series. Maybe multiple movies. But... The Death Gate Cycle. I think it'd work well on screen and it sure would be entertaining.